Electronic Books

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Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

Potentially dangerous environmental changes are happening in the atm- phere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous ...

Lead Markets for Environmental Innovations

Some countries are earlier than others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations. Often, the leadership ...

Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

With climate change now charging up the political agenda, there are three issues commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, ...

Marginality : Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to ...

Marine Resource Damage Assessment

MARE-DASM research focused on: (i) the estimation and distribution of marine contaminants in order to assess their long term ...

Modelling our Changing World

This book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes ...

Oil and Security : A World Beyond Petroleum

This book examines the economic impact of changes in the global demand and supply for fossil fuels both on the major producers ...

Political Economies of Landscape Change : Places of Integrative Power

This book examines the complex relationships between political economy and landscape change. It encompasses perspectives ...

Quantitative Economics : How sustainable are our economies?

Fuzzy vision, anecdotal evidence, media hype and rhetoric characterise the debate of environment and economy. At the same ...

Reclaiming the Land

Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, ...

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, ...

Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk

Formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration ...

Society - Water - Technology : A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects

This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg ...

Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation

This book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. ...

Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning : A Case Study of Punjab, India

This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common ...

Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics : Centre of Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, 2014-2015

These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers ...

Sustainable Commodity Use : Its Governance, Legal Framework, and Future Regulatory Instruments

This book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises ...

Sustainable Energy Access for Communities : Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world ...

Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption : Benefits, Strategies and Environmental Costing

This book about addressing both energy supply and demand, security of access, development problems, equity, market dy- mics, ...

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